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Windows Home Server Interactive Demo

Still don’t know what Windows Home Server is all about? We could re-explain that it’s a server that helps you back up, access, and stream your data/media from inside or outside your house, but it’s probably easier to check out this video demo Microsoft put out. It’s not a straightforward software suite like Windows Media…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 25

Microsoft Cries Uncle in Europe, Will Give Up Code to Competitors

After nine years of back and forth and a small country’s GDP in fines for antitrust violations, Microsoft’s finally caving to EU antitrust regulators by giving code to competitors it’s fought to keep to itself after a 2004 European Commission directive to hand it over. A ruling last month by the EU’s second-highest court affirmed…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 22

LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini Streams Media, Acts As iTunes Music Server

Not only is this LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini capable of streaming fast video over its Gigabit Ethernet to a UPnP media player, it’s got file backup, file synchronization, and iTunes server capabilities. It’s an update to the Ethernet Disk Mini from two years ago, but offers 500GB of storage plus all those networking functions for…

Tech News Jason Chen Sep 26

AMD Launches Quad-Core Opteron, a.k.a. Barcelona

AMD is finally launching its Barcelona quad-core server chip today, although it’s officially being called the Quad-Core Opteron. Intel may have been beating AMD to higher clock speeds recently, but the Barcelona offers some performance and power-saving advantages that should level the playing field again. Saving power is becoming increasingly important in server rooms now,…

Tech News Msparkes Sep 10

Alienware Shows High End Rackmount Media Center Server

Made for those super, super nerds who actually have rackmounts at home, Alienware’s HD Media server has 1080p via HDMI, internal cable card (OCUR) support, Dolby Digital 7.1 preamp output, and built-in Media Center Blu-ray support. In addition to that, there’s going to be native iTunes support so you won’t have to exit the Media…

Tech News Jason Chen Sep 6

Keyspan USB 2.0 Server Brings WiFi, Ethernet to Your Favorite Two Devices

It’s time to stop hogging all those fancy USB devices you’ve collected and let your pals in on the wonders of high-speed portable data storage, printing, scanning and more. Keyspan’s USB 2.0 server will help you share whatever you plug in to its two ports via Ethernet or WiFi. Ringing up at $129, this could…

Gadgets Kthompson Aug 1

Sun Blackbox, Don’t Handle With Care

This is Sun’s datacenter-to-go, Project Blackbox. And the video after the jump shows what happens in its interior when you put it at the epicenter of a 6.7-magnitude earthquake. Jump to the middle of the video to see the effects of the heavy shaking. The earthquake was simulated using a six-degrees-of-freedom hydraulic platform and data…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 12

Windows Home Server to be Available on OEM (That Means You Can Buy It Solo)

We had a close look at the Windows Home Server (WHS) back in April, groping all its sweet, sweet home server features before we were shooed away by Microsoft’s people. Good news for PC enthusiasts who want to do their serving from an old PC: Microsoft’s just announced that they’re going to release WHS as…

Tech News Jason Chen May 16

Microsoft Confirms IPTV on Xbox 360, Windows Home Server – No HDMI/DVR Yet

Microsoft’s confirmed the release of IPTV on Xbox 360, but there’s no word of HDMI, DVR, or any video on demand features. Maybe they’re saving it for later? https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-announcements-leaked-iptv-dvr-vod-226561 Along with IPTV, Microsoft is releasing Windows Home Server, which is essentially an OS for a headless machine to act as file storage for your home.…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 7

Concept: Apple iServe

Tech Analyst, Tom Rowley, is claiming that there is a immediate need for a consumer version of the Apple Xserve, with massive storage. I think he’s dead wrong. Rowley seems like he’s pushing a little too hard for this idea. While having a feature like auto syncing of content added to iTunes would be nice.…

Tech News Ben Longo Dec 11

Server With Eight Hyperthreaded Dual Core Chips Goes 32-ways: Windows Goes Schitzo

Last week, a reader sent in a photo of Windows Task manager showing off a multiprocessing machine’s sixteen gonads. Not bad, pretty cool. In the spirit of one-up-man-ship, I present this: An IBM System x3950 server with eight CPUs, All hyperthreaded Xeons. The result? Windows goes schitzo seeing 32 separate processors. Eric Long, who submitted…

Gadgets Brian Lam Sep 8

Mad Hatter’s Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

This one goes out to all my IT homies. A Gizmodo reader just sent this screen shot in of task manager running on a server he built for work. It runs 4 processors, that have 2 cores each, with each of those cores hyperthreaded. So…That shows up in Windows as 16 procs. I’ll stand back…

Gadgets Brian Lam Sep 1

eSommelier Integrated Wine Management Server

Here’s the perfect accessory for that huge new wine cellar you just installed in your castle, m’lord. It’s the $5000 eSommelier Integrated Wine Management Server, a touchscreen computer that’s an oeneophile’s dream, with a 150,000 wine database built right in. It sorts those wines according to country, region, variety, winery and vintage. Accessories include a…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 5

Gizmodo Gallery: Garnet Hertz

“Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot” (Hertz, 2005) Interview/Article by Jonah Brucker-Cohen In today’s rapidly changing digital world, the need for human (or animal) intervention to control technological devices and machines is becoming outdated. With advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated sensor systems, we are approaching a future that might literally be “out of our control”…

Tech News Coinop Apr 7

GLAN Tank Media Server

Challenger, the PC power-user brand of Iodata Japan, announced its latest media server product, GLAN Tank, for January 2006. The case packs two 3.5-inch HDDs, each with 250 GB. Compared to former models it also features Gigabit Ethernet, XScale 416 MHz CPU, 128 MB memory, and four USB ports. The OS is Debian GNU/Linux 3.1…

Tech News Noah R Dec 28

Windows Home Server Interactive Demo

Microsoft Cries Uncle in Europe, Will Give Up Code to Competitors

LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini Streams Media, Acts As iTunes Music Server

AMD Launches Quad-Core Opteron, a.k.a. Barcelona

Alienware Shows High End Rackmount Media Center Server

Keyspan USB 2.0 Server Brings WiFi, Ethernet to Your Favorite Two Devices

Sun Blackbox, Don’t Handle With Care

Windows Home Server to be Available on OEM (That Means You Can Buy It Solo)

Microsoft Confirms IPTV on Xbox 360, Windows Home Server – No HDMI/DVR Yet

Concept: Apple iServe

Server With Eight Hyperthreaded Dual Core Chips Goes 32-ways: Windows Goes Schitzo

Mad Hatter’s Quad Core 2 Duo Server Goes Sixteen Ways

eSommelier Integrated Wine Management Server

Gizmodo Gallery: Garnet Hertz

GLAN Tank Media Server

Apple’s M5 13-inch MacBook Air Hits Record Low With Its Biggest Discount Yet Since Launch, Cheaper Than 2025 Model on Amazon

‘Chucky’ Is Finally Returning to the Big Screen

Used Electric Vehicles Are Having A Resurgence

Claude Mythos Preview Has Officially Frightened the British

Apple’s New Wearables Push Will Start with Glasses In 2027, Report Says

Crypto Investor at Center of Trump Corruption Allegations Now Sees Himself as ‘Victim’

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Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

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